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Robert Brenner is a humorist, critic, and ventriloquist. His work has been published in New York Magazine, the Huffington Post, Grin & Tonic, and Happy. He has been interviewed on LeMorningShow, the first Twitter talk show. He is a proud graduate of André Aciman’s Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center at CUNY. He lives in New York City with his child bride and two (imaginary) cats. Email: rabrenner@prodigy.net

A lonely, middle-aged Mormon named Willard sat in one of his
many bedrooms, gloomily studying the polls. No matter how he
juggled the numbers -- a skill honed in the private equity biz --
he could not escape the inevitable conclusion: he was going to lose
in November.… Read full post »

America was feeling strangely dissatisfied. She worried that
her best years were behind her, that she was a nation in decline.
Other countries -- India, China, even that slut Brazil -- were
starting to catch up with her. Once considered the land of milk and
honey, she… Read full post »

Dr. Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts and
Sorcerer Supreme, was tired after a long, hard day of battling evil
wizards, dark gods, and eldritch monsters. He just wanted to
meditate, smoke a hookah, and maybe get in a little tantric
exercise with his beautiful alien disci… Read full post »

The
"Occupy" movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in
the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice,
embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First
Amendment. "Occupy" is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and
rapists, an unruly mo… Read full post »

The end is near -- or so it seems to a segment of
Christians aligned with the religious right. The global economic
meltdown, numerous natural disasters and the threat of radical
Islam have fueled a conviction among some evangelicals that these
are the last days. -the
New York… Read full post »

Former Mayor Edward I. Koch's strategy seemed almost nutty
at first: ask Jewish residents in Brooklyn and Queens to vote
against an Israel-loving observant Jew for Congress to send a
message to President Obama...Now Mr. Koch is considering taking his
critique of President Obama'… Read full post »

It is an international island in the midst of the American
capital, a sharp-elbowed place ruled by alpha male economists. The
days are long, and employees are regularly pressed together for
weeks on end during overseas "missions." It is a climate in
which romances often flourish… Read full post »